Joe Piscopo

Andy Rooney, CBS News' longtime resident curmudgeon whose whimsical and acerbic essays on "60 Minutes" turned the rumpled writer into an unlikely — and reluctant — TV celebrity, died Friday night, only weeks after retiring from the show. He was 92.

CBS announced the death of Rooney, who launched his long career during World War II as a correspondent for the Stars and Stripes military newspaper and continued to be a fixture on "60 Minutes" for 33 years.

FOR THE RECORD: Andy Rooney: The obituary of TV commentator Andy Rooney in the Nov. 6 Section A said that Rooney was asked by a USA Today reporter in January about retiring and...